Mozambique: Climate change threatens smallholder farmers

Maputo – Long after the wintry sun set over her patch of crops outside the Mozambican capital Angelina Jossefa keeps pulling out weeds. Much of her lettuce, carrots and beetroot died during a cruel winter, which means she has to work harder to feed her three children.

“This year things were hard because of the cold. It was very cold,” explains the single mother as she pulls out a few heads of lettuce.

Though Mozambique is usually known for its heat and floods, a comparative lack of rain this year coupled with a severe winter has put even more pressure on struggling subsistence farmers like Jossefa who make up 80 percent of the population. Click here to read more.
Source: AllAfrica.com

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